Summary

This collection examines the characteristics of users and
sellers of crack cocaine and the impact of users and sellers on the
criminal justice system and on drug treatment and community programs.
Information was also collected concerning users of drugs other than
crack cocaine and the attributes of those users. Topics covered
include initiation into substance use and sales, expenses for drug
use, involvement with crime, sources of income, and primary substance
of abuse. Demographic information includes subject's race, educational
level, living area, social setting, employment status, occupation,
marital status, number of children, place of birth, and date of
birth. Information was also collected about the subject's parents:
education level, occupation, and place of birth.

Citation

Fagan, Jeffrey, Belenko, Steven, and Johnson, Bruce D. Changing Patterns of Drug Abuse and Criminality Among Crack Cocaine Users in New York City, 1988-1989 . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09670.v2

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1984-01 -- 1989-12

Date of Collection

1988-06 -- 1989-08

Data Collection Notes

The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable
Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe
Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software,
such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy
of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Sample

Respondents were selected through police records and
snowball sampling methods.

Universe

Residents of two New York City neighborhoods, some of whom
had been arrested for drug offenses, some of whom used drugs but had
eluded arrest, and some of whom were participating in drug treatment
programs.

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1992-01-10

Version Date

2005-11-04

Version History

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1992-01-10 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

2002-04-25 The data file was converted from card image to
logical record length data format. SAS and SPSS data definition
statements were created, and the codebook was converted to PDF
format.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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